Migration, Education and Socio-Economic Mobility (Hardcover)

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The primacy of education in development agendas is unquestioned.
With the gradual acknowledgement of the potential benefits that
migration can hold for development, the relationship between
migration and education is a growing area of research. Migration,
Education and Socio-Economic Mobility explores how the decisions
people make in terms of both their migration choices and
educational investments, mediated as they are by gender, class,
caste and nationality, can potentially contribute to earning
incomes, building social and symbolic capital, or reshaping gender
relations, all elements contributing to the process of economic and
social mobility. Much of the existing literature examining the
links between migration and education focuses either on the
investment of migrant remittances in the education of their
children back home or on `brain drain' that refers to the migration
of skilled workers from the developing to the developed world. Most
of these discussions are firmly rooted in materialist arguments and
while undeniably important, tend to underplay the social processes
through which migration and education interact to shape people's
lives, identities and status in society. Along with economic
security, people also aspire to social mobility and status
enhancement. The ideas presented in this book take a more varied
and nuanced view of the relationship between education and
migration. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.